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we have a web app in production, one of our services includes paid files. which after purchasing, user is able to download them . so obviously download needs an authenticated user.

but IDM(internet download manager) tries to download the file , asking a password from user.

we don't want to ask our users to change their IDM settings . and we don't want our download to get interrupted by IDM. what can be done with js and html in this situation? any tricks?

thank you.

Babak Karimi Asl
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  • You should not care what download manager users use. – Ram May 21 '22 at 06:23
  • @Ram yes but our users are not happy with it. in my country most people use IDM. but they may not know how to solve it and they think it's a bug . – Babak Karimi Asl May 21 '22 at 06:30
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    I don't know what authentication system you are using but one thing you can do is generating access tokens for downloads. This question may help you https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54753021/how-can-i-pass-an-auth-token-when-downloading-a-file – Ram May 21 '22 at 06:41
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    More helpful question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29452031/how-to-handle-file-downloads-with-jwt-based-authentication – Ram May 21 '22 at 06:49

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